James bulger



(No Model.)

J-. BULGER, Jr.

. pv No. 239,439. Patented March 29,1881.

JAMES BULGER, JR., OF

PATENT OFFICE.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PUMP.

SPECIFICATION. formingpart of Letters Patent No. 239,439, dated March 29, 1881.

Application filed January 25, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BULGER, Jr., of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pumps, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

My invention relates especially to ordinary house-pumps in which the barrel or cylinder is secured to a vertical frame, and by said frame to the wall or other support.

The invention consists in a novel means of securing the pump barrel or cylinder to the frame, so as to provide for turning the barrel or cylinder to bring the dischargeoutlet in any desired position.

It also consists in the combination, with a pump barrel or cylinder, a handle for operating its piston, and a swinging link, forming a fulcrum for said handle, of a frame to which the barrel or cylinder is secured, and which is provided on each side of the center .with a boltsocket, and a bolt upon which said link may swing, and which may be inserted in either of said bolt-sockets, to make the pum p eitherright or left handed.

In theaccompanyin g drawings, Figurel represents a side view of the pump. Fig. 2 represents a sectional side view upon the dotted line :10 as, Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section upon the dotted line yy, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a cast-metal skeleton-frame, adapted to be placed against a wall or other support in an upright position, and provided with holes a, through which may be inserted securing-screws.

B designates the pump barrel or cylinder, and B the piston-rod thereof, both being of any desired construction. At the bottom of the barrel or cylinder is a suction-pipe, b, and projecting from the side thereof is a dischargepipe, 0. i

In putting up pumps, especially sink-pumps, it is often found desirable and even necessary to shift the discharge-pipe so as to cause it to project in a particular direction-as, for instance, when the pump is placed over a corner-sink having a circular front, or a sink of other peways to admit of this. To this end I construct the pump barrel or cylinder with circumferential dovetailed flanges 67, arranged in pairs, so as to form between the flanges of each pair a dovetailed slideway or channel, 0.

D designates bolts, which are inserted through the frame A, and are provided with dovetailed heads 6, conforming in shape and size to the channels or slideways C, so as to slide readily therein. The bolts D are provided, back of the frame A, with nuts, and when it is desired to shift the pump barrel or cylinder these nuts are loosened, and the barrel or cylinder. can be readily turned to the desired position, after which the nuts may be tightened to cause the edges of the flanges d to bite upon the frame A, and thus retain the barrel or cylinder in place. As shown in Fig. 3, the flanges (I do not extend entirely around the barrel or cylinder, and thus provision is afforded for entering the heads 0 llll the slideways or channels 0.

, For each of the dovetailed channels or slideways 0 there might be substituted a single.

flange dovetailed upon opposite sides, and adapted to fit in acorrespondingly-dovetailm channel or slideway in the bolt-head.

In lieu of having straight inclined sides, the channel or slideway 0 might have rabbeted sides, and the head of the bolt D be made T-shaped to fit in said rabbeted slideway; or a single flange rabbeted upon one or both sides might be employed in place of each channel or slideway, and the bolt-heads be made to receive said flange.

E designates the handle, which is pivoted at f tothe piston-rod B, and is employed to work the pump. F designates a swinging fulcrum-link, pivoted by a bolt, 9, secured in the frame A, and forked at its upper end,so as to embrace the pump-handle E, which is pivoted therein by a bolt, It. The frame Ais provided upon each side of its center with sockets i, which are adapted to receive the bolt g, and thus provision is afforded forconveniently reversing the handle to make the pump right or left handed, as the circumstances of the case may require.

By my invention I provide a very desirable and durable pump of simple construction.

I am aware that it is old to secure a pump cylinder or barrel to its frame by means of a semicircular strapor band bolted at each end to the frame, and passing around the front of the cylinder or barrel, which affords facility for turning the pump-barrel by loosening the bolts which secure the strap or band to the frame, and I do not claim this as of myinvention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a pump barrel or cylinder,constructedwithcircumferentialdovetailed or rabbeted flanges, ofa frame and bolts secured in said frame, and having heads fitting said dovetailed or rabbeted flanges, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the pump barrel or cylinder B, constructed with pairs of flanges d, forming slideways or'channels O, the frame A, and the bolts D, having heads efitting said slideways or channels 0, substantially as specified.v

3. Thecombination of the barrel or cylinder 13, the operating-handle E, the swinging fulcrum-link F, pivoted at its lower end by the bolt g, and forked to-embrace said handle, and

the frame A, having bolt-holes"; upon opposite sides of its center, in either of which said bolt may be inserted, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

, JAMES BULGER, JR.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES,

A. O. WEBB. 

